in entrenchment 1.01 it used the galaxy.manifest to load the maps from the program files galaxy folder, it was changed in 1.02 and later ot the user space galaxyforge folder.

oh and when editing the galaxy.manifest do not forget the count of maps at the top of the file

harpo

any plain text editor can edit the galaxy.manifest, so yes notepad is suitable as is notpad++ which is freeware. also in my modding utilities pack is a galaxy manifest manager that replaces the existing galaxy.manifest with one that has all the sins\galaxy maps listed with the correct file count.

hope this helps

harpo

blazed, if you have old maps from before entrenchment that you want to play then my map updater v2.01 will correctly update ANY map from any map version to map version 3(sins 1.15+/entrenchment 1.01+/diplomacy) and for entrenchment 1.01 the galaxy manifest maker will create a NEW galaxy.manifest with all the maps in the program files galaxy folders and the correct count of galaxy's at the top of the file so that entrenchment 1.01 can offer all the maps in the small/medium/large maps ( the size is determined by the sins engine first by number of players, then number of GravityWells in the map).

here is a quick guide outline for entrenchment 1.01 (only) map adding

1 put map(s) in the program files\stardock games\sins of a solar empire\galaxy folder

2 run my galaxy manifest manager

3 click on the button 'auto-fix galaxy.manifests' (the second button on the top row)

4 click on exit ( the rightmost button on the second row)

5 start entrenchment 1.01, start a new game look through the map lists for the map you want to play, select the map and play

hope this helps

harpo

the manifest manager needs to see the sins folder to find the entrenchment galaxy.manifest to replace it, the program could not find the sins .exe in the path referred to in the registry in the path value in the registry key '
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins', also when you place the value in the registry you will get another error stating the sins version is wrong as it will report sins version 1.1.5.0 and need 1.1.8.0. for this error just edit the text file 'targetsinsver.txt' and change the 8 in the top line to 5. this check was put in place to prevent damaging your game installation.

 if you had installed OR updated sins/entrenchment via IMPULSE these issues would not have happened

harpo

yes the easiest way IS updating via impulse, the hard way is to use regedit to create the nessecry registry entries, these registry entries relate to impulse installer/updater location of the programs, and the current sins/entrenchment versions are 1.181/1.041

harpo